Part of Medvedchuk’s assets, despite the arrest, was transferred to a person from Tatarov’s entourage

By law, seized assets cannot be re-registered, but part of Viktor Medvedchuk’s property changed owners several times. They simply “forgot” to add it to the register.

Journalists discovered that some of Viktor Medvedchuk’s assets were registered in the name of a person close to the deputy head of the Office of the President Oleg Tatarov. Officially, they are owned by fictitious persons who are unlikely to be related to these companies.

Illegal re-registration

The property of state traitor Viktor Medvedchuk and his entourage began to be seized back in 2022. The court ruling should have been sent to the registrar, and they should have issued a ban on carrying out any actions with the object, in particular re-registration. However, they suddenly “forgot” to contribute part of the assets - neither the prosecutors nor the investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation did this.

Initially, the Cypriot structure Pilawer Limited, associated with Medvedchuk, owned three Kyiv companies - Academ-Club, Osokorki-7 and Orest. They have a long-term lease agreement for large plots of land in Osokorki in Kyiv. Their cost reaches tens of millions of dollars. The structure was led by Medvedchuk’s henchman Taras Kozak.

In October 2022, despite the arrest, the owner of Pilawer changed - he became Alexander Belyavsky from Kherson. Journalists are sure that it was only a cover. Three months later, the leaders changed again.

Petros Togramadzhyan from Bulgaria became the owner of “Academ-Club”, Vadim Ivanov from Riga began to own “Osokorki-7”, and “Orest” was taken over by businessman Valery Mishchenko. It is important that operations regarding all three were performed by one notary. This prompted the idea that Mishchenko actually owned them.

Valery Mishchenko previously appeared in stories with “Ukrbud” and the deputy head of the Presidential Office Oleg Tatarov. When the owner of the company went to jail, assets began to be withdrawn. The owners were the companies of Oleg Tatarov and Lyudmila Mishchenko from temporarily occupied Donetsk, which is a partner of Valery Mishchenko. Also, the latter’s company was registered in the house where Tatarov and his relatives have real estate.

The State Bureau of Investigation refused to respond to the journalists' request, and the Office of the Prosecutor General delayed the response by 20 days. They hinted that the answer might not be public.